From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu May 11 13:51:04 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4BJp4jb015776; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:51:04 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4BJp30D018991 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:51:04 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k4BHH6FI000959 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:17:06 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k4BHH6Yg000958 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:17:06 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k4BGWZFI000831 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 12:32:36 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k4BJ6Njn000642 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:06:23 -0600 X-Envelope-From: lizparmalee@comcast.net Thu May 11 13:06:23 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4BJ6Njb000633 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:06:23 -0600 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.192.82]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4BJ6MDf028716 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:06:22 -0600 Received: from elizabetf0vpz0 (c-68-47-194-3.hsd1.tn.comcast.net[68.47.194.3]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <20060511190617m12008fn8ie>; Thu, 11 May 2006 19:06:18 +0000 Message-ID: <001001c6752d$fb9d83a0$03c22f44@elizabetf0vpz0> From: "Liz Parmalee" To: "Joyce & Jim" , References: <200605111500.k4BF0GZY013642@lists5.rootsweb.com> <003101c67516$b7b599a0$05f84542@austin.rr.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Marriage record, Rochester New York, 1842 Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 15:06:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Spam-Score: 1.91 (*) BAYES_00,PAY_SITE X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I am sorry to disappoint you, but NY did not keep records until 1880, the earliest, especially upstate NY. That is why the government website does not have those records posted. You might try military records, etc. Liz Parmalee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce & Jim" To: Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:19 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Marriage record, Rochester New York, 1842 >I have an ancestor marriage that reportedly occurred on August 4, 1842 in > Rochester, Monroe County, New York. The Rochester government web site > does > a bang-up job of providing marriage data for the time period 1876 through > 1932, but not back to my required time. > > My Google search for a copy of this marriage record produced over one > million hits, and all of them I checked invariably led back to the > Ancestry.com pay site, even though many hits gave a false come-on for free > data. > > Does anyone know whom to contact to purchase a copy of this early record? > All suggestions appreciated. > > Jim > Austin Texas >